Method Quote by Henry Mayhew

Method means primarily a way or path of transit. From this we are to understand that the first idea of method is a progressive…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

— Rene Descartes

Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards…

— Alfred North Whitehead

This method of deduction ... is often called "combinatory". Its usefulness is not exhausted at this stage, but it does even at the outset…

— John Chadwick

Knowledge is the accumulation of facts wisdom is the deduction from these facts of useful laws, a process which can only take place by…

— Vera Stanley Alder

If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.

— Ray Bradbury

To learn means by practice, by inquiring, by analyzing to find out what is, not what was.

— Lobsang Tenzin

“As Richard Nisbett and Lee Ross (1980) point out, rationally defensible deductive logic involves a specification from the universal to the particular (“All men…

— Reid Hastie

Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.

— John Dewey

There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does…

— Roger Bacon

... However, there is another method, other than revolution, which is that of natural evolution, or rather the intellectual method with all its modes…

— Ameen Rihani

Knowledge is power only when put to use - and then only when the use made of it is constructive.

— David J. Schwartz